Grace Fellowship International Prayer Letters

Grace Fellowship is an international discipleship, counseling, training, and publishing ministry. It was founded by Dr. Charles Solomon, author of Handbook to Happiness, in Denver, 1970. There are GFI sponsored ministries in countries such as India, South Africa, Kenya, Philippines, Ukraine, Romania, Germany, Australia, and Brazil. The home office is at 3914 Nellie St., Pigeon Forge, TN 37863. Ph. 865-429-0450. Executive Director is Dr. John Woodward; Administrative Manager is Cathy Solomon. The main site is http://www.GraceFellowshipIntl.com. Grace Wilens is the GFI prayer coordinator. She writes, edits, and emails this weekly prayer letter, that is blogged here. Her e-mail is geewillymom@aol.com

GFI Prayer Memo June 5, 2008

geewilly | June 07, 2008 12:38

Dear Missions and Prayer Partners:

John Woodward has sent the following information for us.

Chuck and Sue are in Atlanta for the weekend. They will meet with the translator of the Arabic Handbook to Happiness. Let's pray for God's blessing on the book, especially as a means of outreach to Muslims. And a pastor in Douglasville, GA has expressed interest in hosting a conference. 
 
GFI staff attended a party in Maryville TN, Monday night. Eddie King hosted a surprise event to honor his wife, Wendy. Wendy received the GFI training 7 years ago and has shared the literature message with many people. God used her intercession and testimony to help Eddie appropriate the GFI counseling and thereby find freedom from a chronic eating disorder.
 
Danny Nicely and he met with two pastors from a popular church in the area. They expressed interest to get our training and bring Christ-centered counseling to the church.
 
Dominique Gallou testifies that God is providing for his family as he is being retrained for international commerce with two Christian brothers in Montreal. We need to pray for needs in their family, including healing for a troublesome skin rash on Eileen's hands.
 
John and Linda anticipate traveling to Ontario after Laura gives birth around July 8th. He hopes to have a chance to do some teaching up there and have had one invitation so far.
 
Cathy sent us an item from Charles Ambaka. He says,
I will be ministering in Kenya's second largest university this coming Sunday. I kindly request for prayers. Pass our love to all.
In His Life. Charles Ambaca
 
Praise: We've been praying for Carolyn D.'s sister-in-law, Barby. Carolyn wrote.
PRAISE GOD! Barby gets it ... finally dead to her old self and new in Grace. She walks moment by moment daily. Even her voice has changed; she sounds like a preacher. WOW. PRAISE THE LORD!
 
Wendy writes of this testimony: 
running on her treadmill, watching a DVD sermon by Louie Giglio, she learned that God is inconceivably big, how he spoke the universe into being, and how he breaths stars out of His mouth that are huge raging balls of fire. He also knited our human bodies together with amazing detail and wonder. How can anyone deny a Creator who created all this? And He holds it all together with adhesion molecules. What a Lord we have!!
 
Linda M. writes,
Please pray for my brother, Danny. He has prostate cancer and has to have a lot of tests done to clear him for radiation since he has a bad heart, and also something wrong with his blood platelets that is not related to the prostate cancer. As I think I have told you before, he is not a Christian

John Shepherds reports from Kenya.

Their vehicle blew a head gasket close to the house, PTL, if it had happened out in the bush they would have had to walk out, and that could be a thirty, or a mile hike; the BMOK hauled it to Nairobi and it will be repaired by the first of the week. This meant renting a vehicle so that the team would not be down for three days without transportation Into bush. So far the team has had over 60 pray to receive Christ and started one new church.

Keep praying for rain, and for the team to find many old men in their bomas. As it gets dry, they are moving their livestock further from their homes to find grass and water. That will mean that many of the men will be gone.

This is the first team in Kenya this year and they are getting a reality check in inflation. The dollar has fallen from over 73ksh/dollar, to 61 ksh/dollar, since January. That along with the 26% increase in the cost of living per Kenya Shillings, and they are looking in some in instances to almost a 50% increase for doing ministry. This does not include the tremendous increase in airline tickets in the past year. In the future, this increase in airline tickets may be prohibitive for some volunteers to be able to go and work among the Maasai.

It was God who put them there, and it is His to keep them there if He so desires.

The teams are not cutting back, but are finding thousands upon thousands of unreached Maasai who are asking for them to come and share with them what we have shared with their fellow Maasai. The word has spread all over Maasai land, and God has opened the doors wider than ever before, for the greatest story ever told.

I received a call from a concerned mother in Raleigh, N.C. Her five year old daughter, Ella, has been diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. She has three siblings and was blessed with a party to encourage her. Let's pray for God's healing touch for her and wisdom grace for her family.
 
Praying with you,
 
Grace 

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